On October 3 he decided he would do something about it, and wrote home asking them to contact one of his comrades, Charles Henry Carter.

He wrote: “I should be greatly obliged if you would send my next parcel to a comrade who is greatly neglected. Nobody writes to him and he never gets a parcel. “I feel so sorry for him and he always gets a very welcome share from my parcels.”

He added: “The poor fellow is also unable to write and has been seriously neglected at home, he has five other brothers serving and a father.”

Charles was originally from Bilton, and his brothers Joe and Arthur, were also serving with the 1/5th Battalion. Documents also show that two other brothers, his step-father and five cousins also fought in the war.

Charles, and his brothers Joe and Arthur, were wounded in a phosgene nerve gas attack in 1915. Charles died on August 2, 1917, while fighting in Flanders and France.